To the editor: I learn Jonah Goldberg’s column each week, for I seek for varied factors of view that create a clearer view of the political panorama. That stated, I take nice displeasure together with his standpoint and wordsmithing. (“This is why Kamala Harris is avoiding the press — and getting away with it,” Opinion, Aug. 6)
President Biden is “cantankerous” and “senescent”? Are we not all getting older?
On July 21, Biden declared he wouldn’t be a candidate. Within the first few days of August, sufficient delegate votes ensured Vice President Kamala Harris can be the Democratic nominee and she or he chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her operating mate. Instantly, Goldberg and different members of his tribe are screaming for an “aggressive” press to problem her.
However keep in mind, Harris remains to be vice chairman and Biden remains to be president for one more six months. Apart from Jan. 6, 2021, did former Vice President Mike Pence ever saunter past the guardrails that former President Trump established? In fact not.
“I don’t just like the press’ sudden love affair with Harris,” Goldberg writes. However this can be a honeymoon of solely three weeks, whereas Trump declared his run for president in November 2022.
Paul Milberg, Oak Park
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To the editor: Goldberg raises an vital however maybe uncomfortable level in his column.
The press didn’t settle for Biden’s teleprompter appearances after the June 28 debate as proof of his competence to marketing campaign, however instantly the media are completely fantastic with Harris solely chatting with mass rallies from a podium.
The press demanded information conferences and interviews to find out if Biden was nonetheless as much as the job. Harris ought to be held to the identical customary.
She has been phenomenal studying from the teleprompter to raucous applause from her most devoted followers, however many People nonetheless know little about what a Harris presidency would entail.
Democrats could also be snug with the present technique, however a slim minority of impartial and undecided voters stay, and Harris’ technique is elevating questions on why her workers is defending her from environments she doesn’t management.
Nicholas Gaines, Lake Balboa
